ABSTRACT
Up until now our attention has been directed towards design patterns whose visual origin, or path of creation, can be traced by way of “observed” transformations. Taking the diamond design as our point of departure, this chapter will investigate additional or alternative paths of origin, and in this way reveal the probability that similar and different designs are conceptually connected. One aspect of such a scenario is the probability that design patterns, once made, form a visual logic of their own. Hence, the various Late Mesolithic design patterns could be regarded as an “autonomous” system of internal references in which new analogical paths were created.
